27/04/2018 | Session
PACE called on member States to ensure that every tuberculosis patient is effectively diagnosed and has access to appropriate treatment and care, as well as to psycho-social support.
27/04/2018 | Session
PACE has urged Council of Europe member States to provide free schooling for all migrant children, in line with their international undertakings, and to treat them in the same way as other children for educational purposes.
26/04/2018 | Transparency and Integrity
Strasbourg, 26.04.2018 - The Assembly intends to draw all the necessary consequences, on all levels, from the conclusions of the investigation body on corruption allegations within PACE, “which are now indisputable”. This applies to recommendations aimed at improving its general operating...
26/04/2018 | Session
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe today held a current affairs debate on Europe's role in peacemaking initiatives in Syria, opened by Rósa Björk Brynjolfsdottir.
26/04/2018 | Session
The Assembly has expressed certain concerns with regard to the Copenhagen Declaration on the reform of the system of the European Convention on Human Rights, adopted at a ministerial conference in April.
26/04/2018 | Session
The Parliamentary Assembly noted with deep concern that the confiscation of criminal assets is often prevented by “an unreasonably heavy burden of proof placed on the competent national authorities.
26/04/2018 | Transparency and Integrity
The Rules Committee has delivered its findings on the behaviour of the first three individual PACE members mentioned in the report of the independent investigation body looking into allegations of corruption within the Parliamentary Assembly – and decided to postpone a decision on a fourth. The...
25/04/2018 | Session
Addressing the Assembly, Anders Samuelsen, underlined the importance of the political declaration adopted in Copenhagen by the 47 member States, on continued reform of the European system of human rights.
25/04/2018 | Session
Within Europe, more than four million persons are displaced inside their own country due to armed conflicts and violence. And their humanitarian needs and rights, the Assembly said today, need greater attention.
25/04/2018 | Session
The UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons, Cecilia Jiménez-Damary underlined that 2018 marks the 20th anniversary of the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement.
25/04/2018 | Session
PACE has spelled out a series of steps to protect the editorial integrity of journalists and promote high professional standards in their field – including urging states to set up national observatories to track disinformation.
25/04/2018 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The committee called on the Israeli authorities to work with UNICEF, the International Committee of the Red Cross and civil society to change laws and practice to fully protect the rights of Palestinian minors in the Israeli justice system.